People don't have the time to prepare the food Julia Child used to show on her cooking program. It's a different world. Now instead of the fancy French cooking of Julia's day, food TV features easy dinner recipes. That doesn't mean bland. In fact it can be quite exciting to eat these easy to prepare foods.



Dinner cooking ideas can be found in other places too. There's a lot of food online. Sure cooking shows have web sites but there's more than those. Simple meals, healthy meals, even meals cooked on car engines are featured. In fact there are thousands of online sites for ever type of food or meal subject. It would take a life time to read it all.

Simple food doesn't have to be boring food. Easy meals aren't bad meals. Sure hot dogs are easy to make. They're good, but it's a little common or generic. Then try some corn dogs. Kids love them, and they're not hard to prepare. Some corn meal, flour, milk, salt and sugar, coat the dog, fry it. You can even find a stick to make it just like the corn dogs at the amusement park.

Corn dogs aren't healthy. Easy doesn't mean not healthy. Broiled chicken is nice in a salad. That's a simple meal. It's also good for you. Add a chicken soup appetizer. Salads can be made from almost anything. Some diced ham, hard boiled eggs and lettuce makes a great dinner salad.

Now how about little sip of history. Dinner and supper started out as separate meals in colonial times. Physical work required a late afternoon meal, called dinner. The long hard day ended with a larger meal called Supper. Over time dinner and supper became the same meal. However supper and dinner are still separate for some people in 2008, especially for people who perform physical work.

You don't have to have a separate supper and dinner. But you can try lighter, traditional supper style meals at dinner time (or does your family call it supper?) Either way, with some easy dinner recipes found online, it can be called delicious.